Puccini: La Bohème

Irina Lungu (Mimì), Giorgio Berrugi (Rodolfo), Kelebogile Besong (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Benjamin Cho (Schaunard), Gabriele Sagona (Colline), Matteo Peirone (Benoît/Alcindoro), Cullen Gandy (Parpignol)

Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Àlex Ollé

The voices could be more beautiful but it’s hard to think of a modern-dress production of La bohème that more perfectly captures the rhythm of the city in Puccini’s youthful Parisian romance…On... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018 More…

Release Date: 11th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: 742704
Label: C Major

Puccini: La Bohème

Teatro Regio di Torino, October, 2016
Irina Lungu (Mimì), Giorgio Berrugi (Rodolfo), Kelebogile Besong (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Benjamin Cho (Schaunard), Gabriele Sagona (Colline), Matteo Peirone (Benoît/Alcindoro), Cullen Gandy (Parpignol)
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Àlex Ollé (director)

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120 years after its very first performance, which took place at Teatro Regio di Torino, La Bohème returns to the tradition-steeped Italian opera house. With director Àlex Ollé from La Fura dels Baus and music director Gianandrea Noseda the Teatro Regio presents a spectacular, up-to-date anniversary production. For Àlex Ollé, directing the opera for the first time, “La Bohème allows the young generation to get rid of everything that prevents them from flying, feeding only on their own vitality; the real hunger of the protagonists is the hunger for life. My production is set in a modern city outskirt. It is there where, in my opinion, the intellectual matrix of the future happens; in ugly, disreputable and poor places which are authentic. In this kind of environment, where life and art – as they did in Romanticism – belong to the survivors.” “A triumphant youthful Bohème”, in which the singers excel due to their naturalness. Giorgio Berrugi sings his Rodolfo “with a luminous timbre, in refined nuances” (La Stampa), perfectly matching “Irina Lungu’s full-bodied Mimì” (The London Times). All in all, “this is theatre, this is life, this is passion” (Corriere della sera).

SOUND FORMAT: Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.1

PICTURE: 16:9, HD

SUBTITLES: Italian (original language), German, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: English, German, French

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 112 mins

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March 2018

The voices could be more beautiful but it’s hard to think of a modern-dress production of La bohème that more perfectly captures the rhythm of the city in Puccini’s youthful Parisian romance…On stage and in the pit, timing is faultless…The intimacy of Act I, the bustle and spectacle of Act II, the irreconcilable emotional tangle of Act III, and the awful, inevitable tragedy of Act IV are handled exquisitely by Gianandrea Noseda.

December 2017

The grimness of modern urban life is never far away…though the modern additions can’t hide the fact that this is a traditional Bohème at heart, true to the work’s spirit…Cavalletti is a sincere, touching Marcello, and Kelebogile Besong a deliciously over-the-top Musetta, as the staging demands…Noseda doesn’t disappoint here, conducting with sensitivity and refinement, neve indulgent but consistently moving.

Opera Now October 2017

Noseda conducts a very detailed version of the score, highlighting its modernity, and both orchestra and chorus are on good form.

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